Over the past few weeks, we’ve been informally reviewing different courses in Canvas – often when you, the faculty, have asked questions about why X is happening in your course or how to do Y in your course. One of the things that we have noticed is that many of the courses, and many individual users, are still set to the Eastern time zone. One of the nice features of Canvas is that we have the ability to finally set our accounts and our courses to the Pacific time zone. So…
First, before you add any deadlines or due dates into your course, be sure that you have changed the time zone in your own account to be on the Pacific time zone. To do this, simply follow the steps in this video:
Or click https://youtu.be/j-OvTbbO2p0 to view this video.
Once you have changed your account’s time zone, be sure that your course is also set to the Pacific time zone. You can check this, and change it if necessary, by following the steps in this video:
Or click https://youtu.be/6a99O-6AhfU to view this video.
Note that if you added any deadlines or due dates to your course before you undertook these steps, those deadlines or due dates will be based on the Eastern time zone and you will need to revise them once you have followed the steps in these two videos.
As always, if you have any questions about Canvas, feel free to contact Jim O’Connor or myself.
Michael K. Barbour
Fellow